Garment display form



2 Shefzs-Sheet 1 Filed May 27, 1946 N. SHAFARMAN GARMENT DI S PLAY FORM2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed May 27, 1946 Patented Aug. 16, 1949 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE If Y a 2,479,140,= 7 I V GARMENT DISPLAY FORM Nell'yeShafarman, Cleveland, Ohio rApplicationMay 27, 1946, Serial No. 672,5461 9 Claims. (Cl. 223 68 This invention relates to improvements indisplay forms for garments, particularly garments such as waists,blouses, and the like.

One object ofthe invention is to provide a garmentdisplay form which incertain'respects possesses outlines substantially corresponding to thelines of the human torso, especially at the shoulder lines and--aroundthebodyat a point abovelthe waist. line solthat a garment supported onthe present form will assume substantially the shape or draped conditionand appearance as if actually worn on-one.s body.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment. displayform-for waists and the like in which the shoulder lines of the formmerge in a more or less natural fashion in a neck portion or member, theneck portion. of the form being made from one piece of material such ascomparatively heavy cardboardor paper and theremainder of the form?being made from a single blank of such material, with these two elementsof the'completed form securely fastened together by a mechanicalinterlock between them,

A still further object of. the invention is'to attach the neck member tothe body of the present form with interlocking elementsso constructedthat they Wlll: provide transversely alined recesses for the cross-armof, standards of thetype on which formsof the present character arefrequently mounted or supported in window and other displays.

One specific object of the invention is to provide a blank from whichthe front'and back of the form are fashioned, said blank being cut orshaped so that those portions which constitute the back of the form arefolded downwardly and inwardly with respect to the front of the form andproduce a shoulder'line from the neck of the finished form to the sideedges-thereof, substantially corresponding to the shoulder lines of thehuman torso. In this connection, the back portions of the form which arefolded over upon the'front portion of the form are attached to saidfront portion by readilyappliedand readily removable fastening elementswhich consists of two disks havin apertures therein with slot or throatopenings extending from the apertures to the edge of the disk so thattensioning members in the form of elastic loops can be readily slippedinto the apertures of the two disks withthe result that when two ofthese 'disks are located at the front and back of the form. with" theelastic; tensioning member extending through the disks aperturesand'slots in the front and back of the 2 r 7 form, those portions of theform will be securely held together. 7

With these and other objects in View, the in vention consists in certaindetails of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, allas will hereinafter be more fully described and the novel featuresthereof particularly pointed out in the appendedolaims.

In the accompanying drawings. 7 Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating theblank from which the body portion of the present form is produced;

Fig. 2'is a'plan view'ofthe'blank fromwhich the neck of the present formis formed;

Fig. 3 is a front view of the form; Fig; 4 isa rear view thereof;

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view on line 5-5 of Fig.3; and

Fig. 6 is a detail sectionalview on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

As shown in Fig.1, the blank from lwhich the body portion of the form isproduced is described as consisting of the front section 10 and the backsections ll, [2, with a neckopening [3 formed at the converging ends ofsaid back sections. For purposes which. will presently, appear, the backsections ll, l2,flare outwardly from one another or diverge from oneanother .when the blank is in flat condition. The edges of the backsections are provided with interlocking elements for securing theseedges together when,

the'blank is folded, these interlockingelements consisting of slots M inthe edge'of one backsec-v tion and tabs l5 on the edge of the other backsection, these tabs being partially severed at the edge of .saidsection,ras indicated at I6, so that when the tabs are pushed'throughthe slits l4 these severed end portions may be slightly deformed toprevent the tabs accidentally with 7 drawin from the slits. Each backsection II,-

[2 is also formed with a slit I! near its upper extremity. and theseslits are adapted to register with corresponding slits l8 near the waistline' vof the front section [0 ,when the back sectionsareflexedandfolded upon the front section-so that the several sections canbe secured together in their folded'condition by fastening elementswhich. extend through these alined slits.

forms atensioning. member, Eachof the disks I9, 20, is provided withapertures-21 with slots 22 extending from the apertures to the edges ofFor convenience in assembling the fastening elements the disks so thatthe tensioning member 23 may be readily inserted in the severalapertures of the tWo disks by simply passing said tensioning memberthrough the throat openings 22, The tensioning member 23 is preferablymade of elastic material and, as will be apparent, all that is necessaryis to slip one of the disks l9 or 2B edgewise through the alined slotsl1, l8, after the blank has been folded and then position the two disks.of each fastening element fiat against the surface of the form. Theresiliency of the tensioning member not only facilitates passage of thatmember through the throat openings 22 of the disks but this resiliencyof the tensioning member also tends to hold the front and back sectionsof the form securely and closely together.

Referring particularly to Fig. 4, it will be seen ent type are supportedon standards and with the present form these standards are adapted toextend through the neck opening l3 with the upper end of the standardabutting against a partition 31 mounted in the cylindrical neck althoughthis partition 31 may be dispensed with and the end of the standardpermitted to engage against the end closure 38 of the neck, this endclosure practically always being used as a closed neck presents anappearance much more pleasing than if the upper end of the neck is leftopen. Also, in a great many instances, these supporting standards forthe forms are provided with cross arms or cross bars and for this reasonthe several tabs 34 of the neck are so spaced with respect to oneanother that the juxtaposed tabs at that when the back sections l i, [2,are flexed and folded upon the front section it the opposed edgesof thetwo back sections are brought together in more or less parallelism. Inother words, it might be said that the back sections it and i2 arefolded downwardl and inwardl with respect to the front section ii! inproducing the form. This relative inward movement of the back sectionswhen being folded serves to produce a sloping shoulder line effect inthe finished form, as best illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, the shoulderlines sloping from the neck openingl3 toward the side edges ofrthe form.Thus, when a garment such as a waist, blouse, or the like is draped onthe form the shoulders of the garment will have substantially the sameappearance as when the garment is worn on the human torso and, ofcourse, has a muchbetter eye appeal than a garment displayed on a formwhich has straight horizontal shoulder lines. As is cus-v tomary informs of this type, a busteifect can be produced by forming the frontsection Hl with diagonal slits 24 at each side thereof with verticalslits .25 extending from the upper inner ends of the diagonal slits sothat the tongue 26 thus produced at "each side of the front section I0can be folded under and secured, for instance, by ordinary staples 21.This folding in of the tongue portions 26 distends the front section inat the upper extremities of the slits and producesthe desired busteffect. a

The blank for the neck of, the finished form is shown at 28 in Fig. 2,this blank being adapted to be folded into cylindrical form and its endss..-

cured together by the tabs 29 being secured in.

the "slits 3c, the tabs being severed at one end from the form 28, asindicated at 3|, so that these severed end portions can be deformed toretain the neck in its cylindrical shape. The top edge 32 of the neckblank is cut so that when the blank is folded to cylindrical form thecylindrical neck will have a straight upper edge while thelower edge 33of p the blank is shaped so that the neck, in cylindrical form, will fitneatly against the surfaceof the shoulder portion of the form proper, itbeing understood that when the back sections 3 I, l 2, are folded uponthe front section they are fiexed to form an arcuate shoulder portion,as best seen in Fig. 5. For securely attaching the cylindrical neck tothe for'inthe lower edge of said neck is provided with a series of tabs34 each tab being severed at its ends from the neck blank, as indicated'at 35, and these tabs are adapted to be inserted in slits 36 in thefront and back sections of the form and the ends of the.

tabs deformed to prevent their accidental withdrawal from'the slits.Usuall forms of the .preseach side of the neck opening l3 willconstitute recesses in which such a standard cross arm will engage, asbest seen in Figs. 5 and 6. Preferably, the partition 3! is used in theneck for supporting the form on the standard as this will preventrupture of the neck closure 38 and with the form so supported on astandard with the standard cross arm located between the pairs of tabs34 of the neck it will be seen that the form is firmly retained in itsposition on the standard- As stated the form, both the body portion andthe neck, may be made of comparatively heavy paper or cardboard or otherpliant, flexible material so that the sections IO and I I can be flexedto produce the forwardly and rearwardly curved and laterally slopingshoulder lines which so closely simulate the contours of the shouldersof the human body. The present form is of extremely simple constructionin that as thus described it consists essentially of the two'members orstructural elements, the body blank and the neck blank and these twomembers can be readily assembled, the neck being securely attached tothe body by the interlocking tabs and slits so that when the completelyassembled form is painted or its surface otherwise treated it presents avery pleasing appearance. To further simulate the contours of the humanbody the present invention further contemplates the provision of whatwill be termed the side members 39, these members being composed offlexible material such as paper. Each side member may be said to consistof a strip of material with its ends secured to the front section andone of the back sections, the length of each side member preferablybeing such that it is bowed outwardly slightly. The width of the sidemembers vertically of the form may vary but these members are locatedslightly above the waist line of the form so that when a waist, blouseor like garment is draped over the form the sides of the garment will beheld distendedinstead of collapsing into the space between the front andback sections, it being understood that the front and back sectionsactually contact each other only at the points where they are securedtogether by the tensioning members 23 dueto the arcuate formation of theshoulder portions of the form. In other words, when the back sectionsare folded down upon the front section the form has the roundedshoulders where the front and back sections are spaced apart a maximumdistance and from that point the back sections and front sectiongradually merge or taper downwardly to the point where they are fastenedtogether by the members 23.

What is claimed is:

1. A waist display form consisting of a blank having a front sectionwith va neck opening in its upper portion and extensions at its upper.ex-

tremity folded inwardly toward each other and downwardly upon the rearof said front section on lines intersecting said neck opening, saidlines constituting shoulder lines sloping from said neck opening to theside edges of said front section.

2. A garment display form comprising a blank having a form front portionand form back portions, said back portions consisting of two flaringextensions at the top of the front portion adapted to be flexeddownwardly upon the rear of said front portion and inwardly toward eachother on substantially the shoulder lines of the form, said lines offlexure sloping toward the side edges of the form to simulate theshoulder lines of the human torso and said flexed portions of the formbeing curved forwardly and rearwardly of the form at said shoulderlines.

3. A garment display form for supporting waists and the like, said formcomprising a blank having a neck opening therein, a form front portionextending in one direction from said opening and diverging back portionsextending in the opposite direction from said opening, said backportions being adapted to be arcuately flexed downwardly upon the rearof said front portion and inwardly toward each other on lines slopingfrom said neck opening toward the side edges of the blank to simulatethe shoulder lines of the human torso.

4. A garment display form for supporting waists and the like, said formcomprising a body portion having a neck opening therein and a'tubularneck member extending upwardly from said opening, said body portionbeing composed of a blank having a front section and two back sections,said front extending downwardly from the neck opening and said backsections bein arcuately flexed downwardly upon the rear of said frontsection and inwardly toward each other along lines sloping from the neckopening to opposite side edges of the form to simulate the shoulders ofthe human torso.

5. A blank for a form for displaying garments such as waists consistingof a form front section, an opening in the neck area of said front, two

form back sections merging into said front at opposite sides of the neckopening and adjacent thereto, said back sections diverging outwardlyfrom the neck opening toward their free ends, said back sections beingfoldable downwardly on the rear of said front section and inwardlytoward each other along lines sloping from the neck opening toward theside edges of the blank to produce a form having shoulder linesextending from the neck opening, similar to those of the human torso.

6. A blank for a form for displaying garments such as waists consistingof a form front section, an opening in the neck area of said front, twoform back sections merging into said front at opposite sides of the neckopening and adjacent thereto, said back sections diverging outwardlyfrom the neck opening toward their free ends, said back sections beingfoldable downwardly on the rear of said front section and inwardlytoward each other along lines sloping from the neck opening toward theside edges of the blank to produce a form having shoulder lines similarto .those of the human torso, and neck member attaching slits in saidblank extending. around the neck opening, said slits being movable intoposition to receive a neck member by the said folding of the backsections.

7. A flat blank foldable into a form fordisplaying waists and similargarments, said blank comprising a form front section and two divergingback sections extending from the shoulder portions of the front section,there being an opening in said blank extending from the converging endsof the back sections into the shoulder portions of the front wherebysaid back sections can move toward each other when folded upon the rearof the front section to produce a laterally sloping shoulder effect inthe folded form, and interlocking elements on the opposed edges of saiddiverging back sections for securing said sections together when foldedon the front section.

8. A flat blank foldable into a form for displaying waists and similargarments, said blank comprising a form front section and two divergingback sections extending from the shoulder portions of the front section,there being an opening in said blank extending from the converging endsof the back sections into the shoulder portions of the front wherebysaid back sections can move toward each other when folded upon the rearof the front section to produce a laterally sloping shoulder effect inthe folded form, and interlocking elements formed integrally with theopposed edges of said flaring back sections for securing said sectionstogether when folded on the front section, said interlocking elementsconsisting of slits adjacent the opposed edge of one back section andtabs on the opposed edge of the other back section engageable in saidslits.

9. A form for displaying garments such as waists consisting of a blankhaving a front section and flaring back sections merging into the frontsection at the shoulders of the form and flexed inwardly and downwardlyon the front section at said shoulders, the merging portions of the backsections and front being flexed on arcuate lines, means for securing theopposite ends of the back sections flat against the rear face of thefront section whereby the front and back sections diverge toward thearcuately flexed shoulder portions, and flexible inserts attached to thefront and back sections at each side of the form at a point above saidsecuring means whereby the otherwise open sides of the form are closedby said inserts for a portion of the height of the form to give thatportion of the form a contour substantially corresponding to that of thesides of the human torso above the waist.

NELLYE SHAFARMAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the flle ofthis patent:

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